Block - Stamp Festival - Street Art - Street Art

The 2026 stamp festival has a new theme dedicated to the street arts. street art. Fête du timbre, Street Art If there's one thing as global and universal as postal mail, it's street art! This wild artistic movement can be found in every city on all five continents, wherever men and women place free, systematic and unauthorized art in urban spaces. This art is divided into two distinct movements, which appeared at the same time: in the United States, young people from underprivileged neighborhoods in the 1960s began to write their nickname - their blaze - in spray cans and markers in the streets, creating a new calligraphy that first became tag, then graffiti. Simultaneously, in France, artists such as Gérard Zlotykamien and Ernest Pignon-Ernest took to the walls with works of art of all kinds: collages, drawings, stencils, chalk, mosaics, etc., claiming a free artistic act without permission: this was street art. More than 60 years later, this major artistic movement of our time has already given prestigious names to art history, such as Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat or, closer to home, the mysterious Banksy. But above all, it transforms our cities into wild art galleries, to the delight of passers-by and art-lovers in ever-increasing numbers, who are fascinated by these offbeat, sometimes committed, but always stimulating works! La Poste entrusted the creation of the stamp to Hopare, whose real name is Alexandre Monteiro, born in Paris in 1989. Over the years, he has succeeded in creating a dialogue between graffiti, street art and contemporary painting. His work unites the rigor of line with the power of emotion. The faces he paints, with their intense, penetrating gazes, question what we see of the world and what we choose to look at.

Bloc d'un timbre-poste (héliogravure) : Création Hopare